X-Box 360 MTV Special

Well after watching the video here in the US I noticed TONS of fanboys from every side talking badly about the special in various forums. However the truth is the unveiling was very lackluster... especially considering the fact that we all knew about everything they showed for the most part except for the specs, which are barely touched on.

So warning to those who haven't seen the special... it isn't that big a deal cuz everything was pretty much revealed last month. Oh and they do show some game footage, but they cut away from it rapidly... this is done on purpose. The show's objective was to show off the console and not games. The games that they teased us with are to continue the hype up until E3.

Everyone pretty much bad mouthed Perfect Dark Zero despite never getting a really clear view of the game. Gears of War (from Epic Games) is the best looking title visually, but the Need for Speed title is all cinematic while Gears was all in game.

So I was not dissapointed because I knew what to expect: A showcase of a console I already saw and knew tons about made for casual gamers who were completely wowed because they aren't as informed. People don't understand the intelligence behind this move Microsoft made... why the hell would they talk about boring specs during the show? A casual gamer not only won't care, but may not even understand. Microsoft is well aware of the hardcore gamers hence why they'd rather wait till E3 to spill their guts on the system and whether it will or will not be backwards compatible and show off the numerous games.

www.gametrailers.com
A good source for trailers and gameplay vids.

Dear God what an abortion.

Highights include:

'But right now I'm gonna kick it down to my main man Sway'
(Elijah 'hobbit' Wood said this)
cue sweeping shot of constantly screaming crowd (what are they screaming at?)

J.Alard (someone tell me this mans first name please) slapping hands and giving Sway a pound
'Yo sup my main man let's check out the new features'
cue boring drone about downloadable content

Seriously it was like a Simpsons parody
You could imagine the marketing guys all talking about it using devil horns hand signs
'check it'

I could hardly watch it to the end.
Talking about 'gamerz' like we're some underclass of humanity that needs to be explained.

Who is Sway and can he be any more of a generic representation of the word 'hip'? (As far as I can tell he's the human embodiment of that dog Poochy from Itchy and Scratchy).

Also from what you could see in amongst the fast cuts, sweeping cameras and neon lights the detachable hardrive seems to be pretty long and not very portable.

i got really dissapointed at the show. i thought it would be cool and that the xbox360 would show some cool thing, but hey? its just an upgraded xbox. nothing new, nothing special. are they still now showing us all?

That's just it they could have made it cool and informative (by cool I mean in the same vein as the adverts for the unveiling were cool).
But they went for the 'Top of the Pops' route and ended up with something completely spacky.

You could argue that the MTV show wasn't for seasoned console players that it was for the MTV market but MTV themselves know not to do anything that ridiculous (and when they do, TRL, it's pretty slickly done).
I think MS mis-judged the channal they displayed the unvieling on (they probably don't even know that vannila MTV doesn't even show music videos anymore) and that even MTV have shunted The Killers on to MTV 2.

None of the features were shown very well (Perfect Dark dm looked pretty much like Halo dm...) and the features chosen to be shown were pretty crappy and probably went over (except for the face plate idea) the average MTV mong's (Vong?) head.

It's not going to stop anyone stampeding their grandmother to get the Xbox360 but it really insulted both anyone who was generally interested in the thing and anyone who happened to watch it because they love TRL and Carson Daly.

I haven't seen the show and reading these comments i thank god i haven't.
Now seeing all this negative response to the show which is like everywhere on the net, even Xbox forums are going crazy of dissapointment. And i thaught N-fans had the most reason to get crazy.

I like to see E3 like playing cards... it all comes down who has the most trumps and well...Microsoft doesn't have one...at all (except if they have Halo 3 somewhere in their sleeve and some killer-RPG), the other problem is that they played their entire hand (with the exception of some sleeve-hidden extra's).

I think Sony is turning up the "let's turn the Xbox360 into the Dreamcast" hype-machine...if offcourse they have some really good (and preferably new) games hidden somewhere. Sony hasn't played it's entire hand and maybe has a trump or 2.

And offcourse you still got Nintendo, who is last in the conference mayhem, who has only been putting down snippets of one card and kept all the rest of them very thigh to its chest. Who's hand could all be trumpcards, who can adjust it's conference to the competition and has the biggest potential (not chance, potential) of sweeping E3 right in front of J. Allard his nose.

The Atmopshere is right...the Xbox360 showed something what Microsoft thinks of the next-gen: improved graphics and a sh!tload of sequels, i say "No thank you" to that. Developers are more and more moaning about the creative restrictions and the fact that, well graphics don't do it anymore.
it's time to get gaming to the next level, it's time it got accepted as a art-form as all the other entertainment mediums have done before it, it's time that developers can work a lot more independent.
Nintendo...bring on the Revolution if you please and for Pong's sake, don't mess it up!(a problem with the big N ,they tend to mess it up...a lot)

I was reading some of these comments and maybe I saw a different show. Because the one I saw showed the console for five seconds, footage of drunk chicks 'playing' the console and 25 minutes of Snow patrol and the Killers.

I was reading some of these comments and maybe I saw a different show. Because the one I saw showed the console for five seconds, footage of drunk chicks 'playing' the console and 25 minutes of Snow patrol and the Killers.

We were all too busy watching the Ourcolony vid.

Yeah, the MTV show was.... awful. But, it attracted casual gamers by identifying celebrities who love it, including big pulls The Killers and Justin Timberlake (who owns a custom arcade cabinet-mounted Xbox built for him by MS).

Think that MTV jibe shows just what amatuers MS are in the games market. Sure going for a casual gamer thing might not be that bad but it looked like MS didn't think too far past that as to how to present the Xbox360 and keep things interested.

If Sony or Nintendo were promoting this thing all would be told what they needed to know be you casual or hardcore gamer. And if backed up somewhere down the line by promotional road shows we'd also get to sample them in a few months.

The jibe was a bit like showing off a new sports car when in reality all you can see in it's racing stipes as it speeds past you in the blink of an eye. That'a all you get for now. 3 will most likely tell us little more than what we already apart from game footage etc.

Bad move MS.

Amateurs maybe, but they aren't new to it, I've got a magazine somewhere from about 10 years ago where Bill Gates explained his full commitment to gaming at a Games Conference in a video where he was walking around infront of Doom (as though he was actuall there). If anyone wants to see it I could maybe look around for it to scan it in, it's funny because it looks so poor. I've seen better Photoshops that are at the lower end of quality.

Anyway, the whole MTV thing was a waste of my time. Precious as it is ;).

I've just watched it! Sky+ is MY friend.

What a huge bag of washing. Full of smelly socks.

Honestly, the bands were OK, the "advert" in the middle had less info than the our colony ones and I never thought I'd hear a Hobit say "rad". Did Elija look uncomfortable at that point or what?

In the age of the Internet, companies like MS should relaise they can't do big "physical" events like this and get gamers excited.

I mean, really, five or six songs, a quick interview with the bands (where we learn the earth-shattering news that The Killers "like nice people") and one chick walks on and pulls a 360 from a cycle courier's bag?

Who wrote this s**te?

Worst MS advert since the Matrix skit.

I watched the Killers and Snow Patrol, and some lasers and a the "unveiling" of the now rather familiar (both in name and in design) Xbox360.

Then I saw some more Killers and thought "Fsck this, I'm going to watch House Doctor instead. It's 1,000 times better than this s**tty live music, foot-high plastic box and truckload of faux excitement"

Has anyone bothered to document how much of the half-hour was spent on looking at the 360, and how much was fscking icing and meringue?

MTV just killed the video game star.What can I say. The show almost said it itself. We got nothing. Not to say the Xbox 360 is going to stink, but did Microsoft just deliver what is kind of expected.
Microsoft threw together a 30 minute infomercial on the heels of Sony beating their E3 press time and it showed. I felt like I was watching the horrible Spike video games award show not the launch of the device that is suppose to be one of the top three influnces on games in the next five to six years. Their teaser web site almost showed more of the 360 than MTV did.Not once did they give me any piece of info that had not already been leaked to the media (and don't tell me microsoft didn't do the leaking). Than there was the commercials. Whats up with this. Do we need commercials for a commercial?

Apparently the American edit had two performances and a lot of footage of the launch titles. I only found out what they were today. And what Perfect Dark Zero ACTUALLY looks like, and it looks....ok....

Yeah, Rare are allegedly reworking the game due to the proper dev kits only being released 10 days ago and such negative reaction. It was, as they say, a prescreen alpha, not fully rendered. At least, that is what they are saying...